"Cyclone brings to this project one of the most advanced external combustion engine technologies we have seen," stated Dr. Robert Finkelstein, President of RTI"
Maybe it's just me but I find it a little worrying that this monster of a robot was created by Dr. Finkelstein
I completely agree with you. Millions of animals are put to sleep each year in shelters. Many of these animals come from irresponsibly breeders that do not see the value of life, but rather only care about making a quick buck. They could care less about what happens to the animals once they are sold.
When cloning becomes commercially viable on a larger scale, what is to stop unethical companies from producing more than just 1 clone? After all, it is more "efficient" to have the surrogate produce a litter of 6 pups. This brings the puppy mill industry to a whole new level.
The way I see it, you can flame Microsoft all you want, but how many Linux distros are there?
I know it's slightly off-topic and borderline trolling, but the whole "year of the linux desktop" is hampered by "linux" being a balloon term these days.
There currently two schools of thought on how the financial markets work, basically the market is either efficient or inefficient.
By saying that "Market cap is speculative bullshit" you are implying that you believe that the market is inefficient. Saying that "Anyone with a brain (ok, it takes perhaps a bit more than just half) knows that the stock market, as an entity, is an idiot." classifies everyone that believes in the efficient market hypothesis as an idiot.
Ever heard of Burton Malkiel? I highly doubt that most educated people would call him an idiot. Even Warren Buffet who does not believe that markets are currently efficient highly respects him and his theories of market efficiency.
The debate of whether markets are efficient or not has been going on for quite some time and there has been NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE to prove that either side is "bullshit" as you say.
Unless of course in your in you infinite wisdom you have information that everyone else doesn't know. If so, please do share. Otherwise, please stop jumping to conclusions that people are idiots.
TOW 2 missiles might be more suitable for this application. Exocets are geared more towards ships; but then again we have quite a few land yachts roaming around so I guess Exocets would work quite nicely.
I was actually thinking along the same lines. There are not too many sites that can withstand being slashdotted. Perhaps Facebook is one of them, or maybe not....
"There's little reason to believe that Mac OS X is protected from viruses by anything other than its low market share at this point. There's not a large enough group of users for network effects to take over. It is not an inherently secure operating system."
I agree with you. Has everyone forgotten the MOAB project last year?
This was a brief insight into what could be accomplished if a group of people really wanted to put forward the effort to uncover vulnerabilities. It has been argued that some of the vulnerabilities could be further enhanced and developed into malware.
If there was a good enough monetary incentive to target Macs, it will be done. Currently malware witters target windows because the market share provides a more efficient monetary return on the time they invest. It would be foolish to think that the brightest malware writers (the real ones that actually develop new malware as opposed to script kiddies) are any different from the best software developers - they make efficient use of their time.
At this point, since there are no precise details as to how this works, all we can do is assume.
It might not sound like a "first hop" only to you, but that's your interpretation. We really have no way of knowing definitively what it does. Hell, even they don't know how it really works.
Launching a DOS from your half a dozen zombies, would in fact cut me of temporarily. That is until, I switch over to my backup connection. A large enough company, would have multiple mirrors and connections across the globe, so it won't be that simple to cut them off.
We can go on and on here discussing the possibilities. But without knowing all the details, it isn't going to go anywhere.
That being said, I do agree that if the vulnerability is confirmed, it will be a real pain in the ass to deal with it.
This is assuming that they will be able to take out all routes to me. Just because they cut off all routes from their end, doesn't mean there are no other routes available to other people.
Say they launched the DOS from Sweden and took out all the devices in the first hop, that doesn't mean, everyone else in the world will not be able to reach me.
... I asked him if he'd be willing to DOS us, and he flatly said, "Unfortunately, it may affect other devices between here and there so it's not really a good idea."
So if they tried to launch a DOS against me and inadvertently take out all the devices a few hops before they get to me, how is this attack going to reach me?
They will have no way of knowing if the attack even worked, since all routes to me are down.
Here in da hood, we be makin r own version of dis browza called "Bling", ya heard!
U can get plugins for it like "Dubs" and "Spinners". this shit is hot to death son!
I'm definitely with you on this one. My biggest gripe is when people send us scaled engineering drawings in PDFs that are formated for 8.5 x 11! How on earth do you expect us to give you accurate to scale estimates when you have just taken an ANSI E or (insert other page size here), CAD drawing and shrank it down to letter size? And of course not be able to tell me what the original paper size was when I ask you! There is an option to specify the appropriate paper size when you create a PDF!
Why go through all the trouble of converting a perfectly good dxf or drw file into a pdf? IP concerns?.... well that's why we both signed NDAs. Besides, just because its in pdf format, doesn't mean I can't modify it.
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"Cyclone brings to this project one of the most advanced external combustion engine technologies we have seen," stated Dr. Robert Finkelstein, President of RTI"
Maybe it's just me but I find it a little worrying that this monster of a robot was created by Dr. Finkelstein
It's alive Igor, It's Alive!!
I completely agree with you. Millions of animals are put to sleep each year in shelters. Many of these animals come from irresponsibly breeders that do not see the value of life, but rather only care about making a quick buck. They could care less about what happens to the animals once they are sold.
When cloning becomes commercially viable on a larger scale, what is to stop unethical companies from producing more than just 1 clone? After all, it is more "efficient" to have the surrogate produce a litter of 6 pups. This brings the puppy mill industry to a whole new level.
FYI, the company is charging $180,000 to have a dog cloned. http://bestfriendsagain.com/order/index.html
The way I see it, you can flame Microsoft all you want, but how many Linux distros are there? I know it's slightly off-topic and borderline trolling, but the whole "year of the linux desktop" is hampered by "linux" being a balloon term these days.
Thank you!
I wish I had mod points right now to mod you up.
There currently two schools of thought on how the financial markets work, basically the market is either efficient or inefficient. By saying that "Market cap is speculative bullshit" you are implying that you believe that the market is inefficient. Saying that "Anyone with a brain (ok, it takes perhaps a bit more than just half) knows that the stock market, as an entity, is an idiot." classifies everyone that believes in the efficient market hypothesis as an idiot.
Ever heard of Burton Malkiel? I highly doubt that most educated people would call him an idiot. Even Warren Buffet who does not believe that markets are currently efficient highly respects him and his theories of market efficiency.
The debate of whether markets are efficient or not has been going on for quite some time and there has been NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE to prove that either side is "bullshit" as you say.
Unless of course in your in you infinite wisdom you have information that everyone else doesn't know. If so, please do share. Otherwise, please stop jumping to conclusions that people are idiots.
So I guess post-consumer waste paper refers to the toilet paper after I've used it?
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Sometimes there is no need to compromise the encryption and authentication, just circumvent it. Have you looked at the stuff they have on
http://www.wii-modchips.com/
Glad to see that there are other RIT alumns here!
TOW 2 missiles might be more suitable for this application. Exocets are geared more towards ships; but then again we have quite a few land yachts roaming around so I guess Exocets would work quite nicely.
You can download an "enhanced" incarnation of the little dude for free at:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/
It's gotta be all those users sacrificing themselves by only browsing /. on Lynx
Go Lynx!
I was actually thinking along the same lines. There are not too many sites that can withstand being slashdotted. Perhaps Facebook is one of them, or maybe not....
then the baby carriage?
What about producers of nuts, bolts, screws, nails? They makes those by the billion every year.
"There's little reason to believe that Mac OS X is protected from viruses by anything other than its low market share at this point. There's not a large enough group of users for network effects to take over. It is not an inherently secure operating system."
I agree with you. Has everyone forgotten the MOAB project last year?
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/
This was a brief insight into what could be accomplished if a group of people really wanted to put forward the effort to uncover vulnerabilities. It has been argued that some of the vulnerabilities could be further enhanced and developed into malware. If there was a good enough monetary incentive to target Macs, it will be done. Currently malware witters target windows because the market share provides a more efficient monetary return on the time they invest. It would be foolish to think that the brightest malware writers (the real ones that actually develop new malware as opposed to script kiddies) are any different from the best software developers - they make efficient use of their time.
It even looks a bit like the Command And Conquer one. I wonder how much tank damage that baby can take?
That's actually quite funny. I wish I still had time to play C&C.
At this point, since there are no precise details as to how this works, all we can do is assume.
It might not sound like a "first hop" only to you, but that's your interpretation. We really have no way of knowing definitively what it does. Hell, even they don't know how it really works.
Launching a DOS from your half a dozen zombies, would in fact cut me of temporarily. That is until, I switch over to my backup connection. A large enough company, would have multiple mirrors and connections across the globe, so it won't be that simple to cut them off.
We can go on and on here discussing the possibilities. But without knowing all the details, it isn't going to go anywhere.
That being said, I do agree that if the vulnerability is confirmed, it will be a real pain in the ass to deal with it.
This is assuming that they will be able to take out all routes to me. Just because they cut off all routes from their end, doesn't mean there are no other routes available to other people.
Say they launched the DOS from Sweden and took out all the devices in the first hop, that doesn't mean, everyone else in the world will not be able to reach me.
According to the article:
... I asked him if he'd be willing to DOS us, and he flatly said, "Unfortunately, it may affect other devices between here and there so it's not really a good idea."
So if they tried to launch a DOS against me and inadvertently take out all the devices a few hops before they get to me, how is this attack going to reach me?
They will have no way of knowing if the attack even worked, since all routes to me are down.
I agree. WEP uses and implementation of RC4. We all know how "uncrackable" WEP is.
They should have called it "Tinfoil" instead...
Here in da hood, we be makin r own version of dis browza called "Bling", ya heard! U can get plugins for it like "Dubs" and "Spinners". this shit is hot to death son!
I'm definitely with you on this one. My biggest gripe is when people send us scaled engineering drawings in PDFs that are formated for 8.5 x 11! How on earth do you expect us to give you accurate to scale estimates when you have just taken an ANSI E or (insert other page size here), CAD drawing and shrank it down to letter size? And of course not be able to tell me what the original paper size was when I ask you! There is an option to specify the appropriate paper size when you create a PDF! Why go through all the trouble of converting a perfectly good dxf or drw file into a pdf? IP concerns?.... well that's why we both signed NDAs. Besides, just because its in pdf format, doesn't mean I can't modify it.
I second that! I wish I had mod points to give.
That is mad funny! Wish i had points to mod you!